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Via Matthew Yglesias, a nifty website gives you a demographic profile of your ZIP code. Something that stands out in my area: there’s a 9.4% unemployment rate, yet a whopping 24.3% of my neighbors live below the poverty line.
Incidentally, the highest poverty rate of any ZIP code in the state is 69.2%, and it’s not in any inner city, but rather in Brownwood, MO, just southwest of Cape Girardeau.
What’s it like in your neck of the woods?
my home zipcode: 4.2% unemployed, 11.9% under the poverty line, median income just below $32K, median age is 36
my school zipcode: 5.1% unemployed, 19.1% under the poverty line, median income just over $33K, median age is 25
there’s some real ‘fun with stats’ going on when the area with higher unemployment and more poverty also has a higher median income. Of course a chunk of the situation there involves it being a college.
Two Missouri zipcodes report everybody as being married.
63938 (Fagus, Missouri; population 31)
65062 (Mt. Sterling, MO; population 8)
Mount Sterling has two men between 70-79 and two between 60-69. Along with 1 woman between 60-69, and 3 women between 60-69.
5.1 % – unemployed
19.8% – below the poverty line
17% have graduate/professional degree
89.6% have high school diploma or higher
34.3% have a bachelors degree
Now, if that last group could get elected to the General Assembly for eight years they’d be qualified to apply for a job at any state supported higher education institution in Missouri, thereby reducing those unemployment and poverty rates. What a brilliant strategery – I see the light.
Unemployed 3.3%
Below the poverty line – 9.1%
Here’s the marriage stats – I’m actually kind of surprised, my impression was that most people were married:
Never married 36.9%
Married 40.8%
Less than 9% have graduate degrees but over 70% have a highschool education.
Unemployed 1.6%
Below Poverty Line 2.5%
Median Household Income: $83,132
Married: 65.3%
Bachelors or higher: 58.9%